After getting delisted from Technorati a while back—due to a XSS attack (I think, nobody informed me)—I managed to get through to a customer service representative at Technorati and my block has been lifted. Interestingly, Digeum, ApolloLee.com, and Osteocephalic were not affected by the delisting. I wonder if it had anything to do with Panera [...]
On this day in 2000, I started blogging in this space. Nine years of the Oracle of Apollo later, I’m scratching my head and wondering if the time for this site has passed. I have no idea how to build an audience for any of my blogs, even the ones that are updated continuously with [...]
Apparently, some web filtering software has this website blocked. BrightKite user PhoneTrips sent me a message this afternoon to alert me to the fact that the filter at Panera Bread, who operates the largest free wireless network in the United States, blocks this site. Apparently, it’s categorized as OCCULT (<gasp />). In 8½ years as [...]
After most of two years, I’ve decided to change the theme of this site, particularly after K2 stopped allowing people to post comments: Sorry, you can only post a new comment once every 15 seconds. Slow down cowboy. In the next few days, I may try out several different themes. I particularly like the ones [...]
This website has been loading quite slow lately. I found some weird stuff in the code from before I recently upgraded to WordPress 2.5. In the header of this blog was <div id=”_wp-footer”> and a bunch of stuff I didn’t put there. I started googling around and found a couple of interesting blog posts, one [...]
Yesterday, my friend, Daniel, invited me to try out a new mobile messaging / microblogging service called BrightKite. With a writeup on Webware and a shiny new closed beta, BrightKite is teeming in buzz. I was excited to try it out. I’ve been using Dodgeball since August 2006. Dodgeball is now owned by Google and [...]
This afternoon, around 1:30 in the afternoon, CNET switched off Consumating for the last time. It was announced about six weeks ago, but we all still hoped that there’d be a last minute reprieve. This evening, we were redirected at Help.com, where the foul-mouthed hipsters of Consumating crashed head-on with the heavily-moderated juvenile-friendly help.com. I’ll [...]
A little while ago, Ben Brown, the founder of Consumating (my favorite social network ever), mentioned in twitter that CNET is shutting the old girl down. According to Waxy.org, the last day is March 15. “Though there hasn’t been an official statement from CNET on the matter, sources close to the company confirmed that the [...]
On this day in 2000, I started blogging on this site, the first post of which was about Planet New Year, which was the New Year’s Party that said goodbye to 1999. There have been a couple of month-long or multi-month hiatuses here since then (and the archives here are incomplete, since I haven’t moved [...]
I don’t know how I missed it. I’ve been looking over sites that are in my feeds or bookmarks. Long ago, I had a link on an ancient version (maintained by editing flat files in php, no less) of this site with a big links list that included Hidden City. I’ve always enjoyed reading Marc [...]
Dear Palo Alto: I’m a big fan of your fair city. I have been since the first time I wandered around your downtown or hung out in Draper’s Music Center on California Avenue or rode my bike down Ellen Fletcher’s Bike Boulevard. You have your own utility company. Other than Middlefield Road and its non-existent [...]
I’m on a large number of social networks. On some of them, people see my profile and add me out of the blue. After receiving numerous such friend requests, particularly on new social networks, like Twitter and Pownce, I thought I’d put together a list so you don’t think I’m a total fucking prick if [...]
About three weeks ago, Ozreiuosn invited me to Pownce, the latest of the responses to Twitter. Leah Culver and Kevin Rose have launched a nifty little service with a few features Twitter lacks completely. Pownce offers a different feature set than Jaiku, of which I’m also a fan. What I like about Pownce: The message [...]
Alison of Bluish Orange hits the nail on the head. She calls it: i loved you, 2001 internet, because you enabled people to create and communicate in ways that really meant something. i liked reading what my friends thought about their lives and about what was going on in the world. i liked reading what [...]
Recently, I downloaded Yahoo! Go after seeing it on a friend’s Pearl. It is really, really sexy. Here’s what I like. Flickr integration: I can see my contacts and their latest photos.Weather: The ability to set multiple locations is really cool. The interface is beautiful and the content is fast.Local & Maps: The “Find Nearby”, [...]
Yahoo recently relaunched their Maps application. It’s very pretty. I’m going to stick with Google Maps, though. Here’s why: I can’t navigate Yahoo Maps with my keyboard. On Google Maps, I can arrow any way I like, use the + and – keys to zoom, use the mouse wheel to zoom, page up/down to move [...]
CBS Corporation has purchased Last.fm. $280 million? Wow. (<nod target=”Metafilter” />). I’m a last.fm subscriber and have been for quite some time. Many of my friends are there, but I don’t interact much with last.fm. I primarily just listen to music in my local iTunes Library and check out my charts on Last.fm. I wish [...]
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